NIVA's architecture and engineering AI chatbot handles client project queries, planning information, specification retrieval, fee proposal qualification, and document management · so your professionals spend time designing, not answering emails.
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Architecture & Engineering support · online
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NIVA handles the planning enquiries, fee proposal qualifications, and document requests that consume professional time · so your architects and engineers focus on design and delivery.
Clients query planning permission requirements, Permitted Development rights, conservation area restrictions, and listed building consent through chat. NIVA provides accurate, jurisdiction-specific information and qualifies clients for feasibility consultations.
Prospective clients describe their project and NIVA qualifies scope, budget, programme, and planning status · routing a structured brief to the right team for fee proposal preparation. Reduces speculative proposal effort significantly.
Project teams and clients retrieve current drawing revisions, specifications, and reports through chat. NIVA integrates with your CDE (BIM 360, Procore, Viewpoint) to surface the right document version instantly.
Project Status Updates
Clients query design programme milestones, consultant coordination status, and planning application progress through chat. NIVA surfaces project management system data · reducing PM time on routine update calls.
Building Regulations & Compliance
Technical teams query Building Regulation Part requirements, fire strategy obligations, accessibility standards, and structural calculations through chat · reducing internal technical query response times.
Staff HR & Resource Management
Project teams query utilisation targets, timesheet submission deadlines, CPD requirements, and professional memberships through chat · reducing practice management admin workload.
Examples from live architecture & engineering deployments, answered in chat instead of routed to inbox.
“We want to convert our offices to residential use. What's the planning position and how complicated is it?”
Office-to-residential conversion may fall under Class MA Permitted Development (commercial to residential) · introduced in 2021. The key conditions: the building must have been in B1(a) use on 30 April 2021, total floor area cannot exceed 1,500 sqm, and the site cannot be in an Article 2(3) land designation. Camden may have an Article 4 Direction restricting Class MA · I'd need to verify for your specific site. Our Planning team can assess feasibility within 48 hours. Shall I arrange that?
Generic prompts from scratch
250+ industry personas, ready day one
FAQ replies and deflection
Flows, forms, and real actions
Credits, tokens, and add-ons
Flat pricing, full white-label
Teams already using NIVA
From persona selection to live on your practice website in under a day. NIVA handles client enquiries · your architects and engineers design.
Choose the Architecture & Engineering vertical from NIVA's library with industry terminology built in.
Pick from 10+ pre-built architecture & engineering personas. Toggle only the roles you need.
Upload policies, manuals, and FAQs as PDFs or URLs into a private knowledge base.
Drop one script tag on your site. The bot goes live fully branded, no redeploy.
Subscribe to expert roles with domain tone and knowledge already built in. Toggle live without prompt engineering.
Planning Enquiry Bot
PD rights, planning, conservation, listed
Fee Proposal Bot
Scope qualification, brief, routing
Document Retrieval Bot
Drawings, specs, CDE integration
Project Status Bot
Milestones, planning, programme
Building Regs Bot
Part compliance, fire, accessibility
Staff HR Bot
Utilisation, timesheets, CPD
+ 4 more architecture & engineering personas available on your demo
Platform capabilities tuned for architecture & engineering teams. Compliance standards are listed separately below.
Upload your specification library, building regulation guides, planning policy documents, and project-specific technical briefs. NIVA answers technical queries from your approved documentation.
NIVA tracks each client's project history, open queries, and document requests · giving your team full context on every client relationship without file-searching.
Build client enquiry qualification flows and fee brief collection workflows. Trigger practice management system updates automatically when a new project enquiry is qualified.
NIVA integrates with BIM 360, Procore, Deltek Vantagepoint, and custom practice management systems. Document access, project data, and fee records sync in real time.
Client Enquiry to Fee Proposal Flow
Trigger
Client submits project enquiry
Qualify
Project type, budget, planning status
Route
Structured brief to right team
Practice
Opportunity logged, fee prep started
Workflows, smart forms, and multi-persona routing from a single admin dashboard.
Build multi-step automated workflows inside the chat: conditional branching, dynamic forms, persona handoffs, and webhook triggers.
Learn more Smart FormsDefine unlimited forms per bot. The AI reads conversation context and surfaces the right form automatically, inline in the widget.
Learn more Multi-Persona AIRun multiple AI agents in one widget. The orchestrator routes each message to the right persona automatically.
Learn moreDrop a single line before </body> and your architecture & engineering bot goes live, fully branded as DesignBot.
Auto-branded
Your colours, avatar, and bot name in every channel.
Instantly updated
Change personas or flows in admin. No redeploy.
CORS-ready
Website, WhatsApp, and custom domains out of the box.
Book a 30-minute demo and see NIVA's architecture and engineering personas handling planning enquiries, document retrieval, and project updates live.
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